Eat honey only to your need, lest excess turn sweetness into nausea.
Moderation becomes the focus in Proverbs 25:16: Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, that you not have it in excess and vomit it (v. 16). The verse names a real rule.
Have you found honey? The question is rhetorical and pleasant. Honey, in Solomon's day, was a rare delicacy. Finding some was a small joy.
Eat only what you need, that you not have it in excess and vomit it. Solomon names the strange truth that even genuinely good things can be ruined by overindulgence. Honey eaten in moderation is sweet; honey eaten without limit becomes nausea. The verse is literal advice that also opens onto a wider principle: good things have their proper measure, and exceeding the measure spoils what was good.
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Proverbs 25:16 meaning
Moderation becomes the focus in Proverbs 25:16: Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, that you not have it in excess and vomit it (v. 16). The verse names a real rule.
Have you found honey? The question is rhetorical and pleasant. Honey, in Solomon's day, was a rare delicacy. Finding some was a small joy.
Eat only what you need, that you not have it in excess and vomit it. Solomon names the strange truth that even genuinely good things can be ruined by overindulgence. Honey eaten in moderation is sweet; honey eaten without limit becomes nausea. The verse is literal advice that also opens onto a wider principle: good things have their proper measure, and exceeding the measure spoils what was good.